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New comment by wholinator2 in "Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist"

wholinator2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:04:08 +0000

I've used all manner of archaic usb cables for data transfer when in a pinch and windows has never shown me anything at all. Could it be the external device you were connecting to triggering the windows notification?

New comment by wholinator2 in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

wholinator2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:24:31 +0000

Here to say ubuntu's got it built in as well

New comment by wholinator2 in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

wholinator2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:05:47 +0000

We have no idea what "Karens" life is actually like. I can think of about 5,000,000 scenarios that make her the more empathetic person in this interaction. People need jobs, government jobs are low paying but secure. This woman isn't making $100,000 a year just to say no to blind people, she very likely could be just scraping by as well, working in a call center, in a soul destroying government office, getting what little she can without a college degree she has neither the money, nor the time to complete. Maybe she worked hard and paid harder and got the degree and then it meant nothing. Very likely her boss and her both know she is eminently replacable. If she stands up she will be the single blade of grass getting chopped by the implacable mower.

What I'm trying to say is yeah, she could've taken the risk and stood up and said something. He could've beared the pain and sent the correct documentation. He knows the process by now, he had to have known exactly what he needed to send! And yet he chose to needlessly inflict harm on someone who's choice it wasn't theirs to make. The reality of jobs these days is not a give and take, let's all make the world better by democratizing our decisions type world. It's much much worse.

New comment by wholinator2 in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

wholinator2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:58:09 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly! This is exactly what i was thinking the entire time. Like, does this guy think this single woman is responsible for the kafka-esque trap they're both in? Will the 0.5% uptick in toner cost for the year cause the administration to rethink their requirements? He's just taken the immense weight and pain he holds for this process, undeservedly, and placed it upon another undeserving person, then laughed at her anguish.

Yes, life is hard, but surely we can bear our troubles in a way that don't make others harder to bear. Or at least aim your troubles at someone who has any power at all to change things! Find a better way to fight the system, that isn't just stabbing other people trapped in the box with you

New comment by wholinator2 in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

wholinator2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:59:51 +0000

Yeah but those are so far away, i have to hunt for them every time

New comment by wholinator2 in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

wholinator2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:10:19 +0000

I dunno, the guy likes words. At least i learned something :)

New comment by wholinator2 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

wholinator2 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:11:10 +0000

Has it always been this way? If not, did it used to be better? If so, how can we get back?

New comment by wholinator2 in "Goodbye to Sora"

wholinator2 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:11:09 +0000

I somewhat consistently use notebookLM for podcasts of academic papers I'm reading in my PhD. You have to go read it yourself afterwards but it makes better use of time in the gym or doing dishes/groceries.

New comment by wholinator2 in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

wholinator2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:12:01 +0000

Right? $2.50 an hour is trivial to a Government that can vote to invent a trillion dollars. Even just 1 million dollars is the cost of monitoring 45 real time feeds for a year. I'm sure just many very rich people would pay that for the safety of their compound.

New comment by wholinator2 in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

wholinator2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:02:56 +0000

Yeah, he sucks too.

New comment by wholinator2 in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

wholinator2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:50:36 +0000

I agree with you, but i want to also ask, have you heard what the ayatollah and the mullahs have said about killing Americans, dismembering protestors, raping children, nuking the United States. Have you heard the protestors mowed down by machine guns, have you heard they make you buy the body of your loved ones for the cost of the bullet, assigning that value to their life, have you heard that they literally living inside hospitals and schools, that they told the iranians they would rather every iranian die then let go of power, have you heard at all how insane the islamic regime is? How seriously they talk about destroying America and all of the west so they can spread their Islamic regime (forced conversions or death, forces prayer or death, women cannot go outside with men, men have all rights in marriage, age of consent is 9 years old _for girls_, older for boys, speaking against the governed is death, protesting is death. They literally walked the streets with speakers and plays on the national tv (propaganda, the only channel allowed now) that the people should go into the street and leave their houses, while america and israel are saying to shelter while we take out military installations. The mullahs are trying to get people killed to use that as a story to get us to stop the war. They've literally embedded military installations in every single block of most of the cities. They do that to use the citizens as human shields. The only reason they haven't already been toppled is that owning guns is illegal, and the regime and their insanity are willing to murder anyone and everyone it takes to hold on to power. They don't care about iran, they care about islam and nothing else, they're willing to destroy the world if it means no other religions are allowed. They killed tens of thousands of protestors, they raped the bodies of women then ripped out their wombs to prevent investigation. It's categorically insane. These are facts. If you don't believe them is cause you don't know anyone who came from Iran, i know many and all of them support toppling the ayatollah, sending in pahlavi as transitionary leader to get democracy running again. Trump is and has always been a crazy person too, but having learned some farsi and listened with my own ears, he's nothing like the mullahs.

New comment by wholinator2 in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

wholinator2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:32:29 +0000

Okay, let's compare. How many iranians has the regime killed over the last few months. They've said they would continue indiscriminately killing as long as it took, the regime would literally destroy Iran rather than let go of their dreams of Muslim empire. They killed tens of thousands of people. Every persian person i know or have even heard about had been highly supportive of the war, with the singular goal of replacing the ayatollah. I hate Trump, i don't think he's necessarily doing it for the right reasons, and i think he's incredibly stupid for the way this didn't need to be a catastrophe for the economy (saying he would fill the strategic oil reserves, not doing that, starting a war that blocks hormuz). But it really bothers me to see everyone touting around the girls school. Do you really think they did that on purpose? The iranian regime would do that in a heartbeat if it meant harming America. How can you care so much about the 1 school and not have cared at all about the tens of thousands of brave protestors literally mowed down with machine guns. Or does it not matter because you didn't see it? They shut off the internet for a reason, and it appears to have worked.

Yes, was is bad, trump is a massive ego and idiot. But nothing we've done has come even close to what the regime has been doing to their own people since 1979.

New comment by wholinator2 in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

wholinator2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:22:06 +0000

Honestly what would happen if the stock market didn't exist. It seems like these days the price of stock is so disconnected from lived reality that genuinely confused if it would be all that catastrophic

New comment by wholinator2 in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

wholinator2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:36:35 +0000

Yes oh my god. I'm trying to rent right now and the application has me doing this fucking approveshield bullshit where they request every document you've ever had and direct access to your bank account before they'll approve that I'm not a criminal or liar. Whatever happened to bank statements?! Why does some random company need to know that my closest grocery store is kroger and i went to miniso for my girlfriend birthday, among hundreds of other small details of my life. And they weren't even satisfied with that, i had to send in a picture of my driver's license (standard these days) but the webpage opened up a qr code, to open on my phone which took me to the appstorr to download some other bullshit app to give every single permission and piece of my data to! I JUST WANT AN APARTMENT, I'VE DONE IT DOZENS OF TIMES, WHY ARE YOU TREATING MY LIKE I'M ON THE FBI MOST WANTED!

New comment by wholinator2 in "Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens"

wholinator2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:55:08 +0000

Yes, i was thinking just this. Having been prescribed multiple immunocompromisers, turning up my immune system sounds terrifying. There's all these supplements and things that talk about boosting your immune system and i get probably most are unrelated, i don't have the time to get a degree in immunology to find out. Zinc does well enough for me, thanks. But if any immune boost started to increase my tnf-alpha or il-23 i'd be on the long and painful road to a terrible death. Or yet another high side effect medication.

New comment by wholinator2 in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

wholinator2 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:33:54 +0000

Sure you could, just don't tell them. The fast food burgers are already part soy and no one is yelling. If they replaced that with lab meat people would probably like it better.

New comment by wholinator2 in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

wholinator2 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:59:27 +0000

I believe that is what adnauseum does. Fake clicking ads and things like that

New comment by wholinator2 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

wholinator2 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:51:36 +0000

What do you mean noise? American people pay 96% of them with an average cost of $1000+ per family over the last year. To the vast majority of people that's waaayyyy above the noise floor.

New comment by wholinator2 in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

wholinator2 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:50:40 +0000

What do you mean?

New comment by wholinator2 in "MacBook Neo"

wholinator2 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:01:09 +0000

Honestly, just cause it's easier if you've never done any kind of container or virtual os stuff before. It comes out of the box with windows, it's like a 3 click install and it usually "just works". Most people just want to run Linux things and don't care too much about the rest of the process